Making sure people at #Evol2026 see this. "The agency’s biology directorate, for example, has been cut by $200 million from its FY 2025 level of roughly $800 million" "Program managers would normally rush to inform [...] the memo tells program managers to keep their mouths shut." 🧪

I'm sad to miss #Evol2026 😭 But PhD student Edie Nissen is there for her first Evolution meeting 🎉 representing the lab and sharing her new work on nuclear-mitochondrial incompatibilities in hybrid yeast. Check out her poster D-19 on Tuesday!!

@teganhoran.bsky.social et al. challenge the prevailing view that synaptonemal complex length is the primary determinant of sexually dimorphic crossover rates. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag130 #evobio #molbio

Dunham lab past and present at #Yeast26 ! @maitreya.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our #SGD booth at last night's #Yeast26 poster session! Especially our best bud who's clearly ready for some serious budding yeast research 🐕✨ Who needs AirBud when you've got a YeastBud? 🧬💙 🧪 #SGD #YeastResearch

Neil Shubin: "Curiosity-driven research is really the seed corn for the major breakthroughs and applications. But it’s also important in its own right, because discovery and the expansion of knowledge are virtues in themselves." 🎯

🚨SSE members: check your inbox!🚨 SSE has sent an important email regarding the OMB's proposed overhaul of federal grant regulations--changes that could affect peer review, publishing, conferences, professional societies, international collaborations, and more. @sse-evolution.bsky.social

Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics // University of Wyoming jobs.chronicle.com/job/37995586... The Department of Botany and the School of Computing invites applications for a tenure-track position in Plant or Fungal Genomics at the rank of Assistant Professor. #BotanyJobs

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at [email protected] 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

In this newsletter I outline important actions to take. 1. Submit a comment opposing the rule change. 2. Contact state legislators to ensure states are engaged with the impact at the state and local level. 3. Contact members of Congress. 4. Spread awareness. This rundown is a great source:

Update! The posting for the postdoc opening in my lab is up! Apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...

To support new junior faculty, JEB launched Kickstart Travel Grants to establish a new collaboration & and ECR Visiting Fellowships to bring an ECR to their new lab for a defined project. The next application deadline is 5 June www.biologists.com/grants/#jeb

Thrilled that our new review article on animal hybridization is now up on EcoEvoRxiv! 🎉 Working on this review with @mollyschumer.bsky.social was a blast, and it was such a wonderful opportunity to catch up on all the amazing work in animal hybridization over the last few years!

New book "A Primer for Experimental Evolution" with coauthors Michael Rose, Margarida Matos, and Joe Graves. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook... A compact primer for students and colleagues interested in planning and designing experiments to address questions in evolutionary biology.

Reminder that the Early Bird registration rate for the 9th Conference on Physiology of Yeasts and Filamentous Fungi (PYFF9) in Valencia (Spain) will expire on May 24th! 👉 Register here: yeastfungi.efbiotechnology.org @pyff-9.bsky.social

Super excited to share our lab's work led by PhD student Margot Ruffieux on domestication of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with a focus on sourdough and baking associated yeast! 🍞

Thrilled to have my first PhD paper with @mmdesai.bsky.social out! @science.org Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Thread below: #mevosky #evosky #evobio #popgen #evolsky #ecoevo #molevol

This is lovely: www.theguardian.com/environment/... #science #biology

⏰ Only 2 DAYS left for early registration! Join us at #Yeast26 (June 13-17, Pacific Grove, CA) for cutting-edge research in #genetics, #genomics, #disease, #regulation, #systemsBiology, #cellBiology, #lifeCycle, #syntheticBiology, & more. Register by April 16 to save! 🧬 genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/

“And in the process, to maybe, finally, find a way to inoculate future generations of Americans against the kinds of genetic misinformation that has been fueling white supremacist belief systems for centuries. […] last April, both of Donovan’s National Science Foundation grants were terminated […]”

Here are more details for our #AGA2026 President's Symposium, all about Polygenic Adaptation in a Changing World! This symposium will promote a broad, synthetic discussion of adaptive evolution for complex traits, bringing together theoreticians & empiricists working on diverse organisms. 1/2

Meiosis faces a fundamental problem: It must repair hundreds of DNA double-strand breaks while executing a transcriptional programme essential for gamete development. But many of these breaks occur in genes. So how are these two processes reconciled? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

So pleased to share that @amanda-meuser.bsky.social 's work is now published in Molecular Ecology! This was a particularly cool study, because it revealed very high rates of hybridization in a system with many closely related species.

In our recent study, we created over 1000 intraspecific yeast hybrids by crossing genetically diverse strains and tested how well they grow under harsh industrial conditions such as high ethanol, salt, and organic acids. enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I’m so pleased to be named a AAAS Fellow! I remember opening the original email thinking wow, which of my awesome faculty won this nice thing (a perk of being chair is getting emails like that) but it was me! www.washington.edu/news/2026/03...

Congrats Maitreya!!!! 🎉🥳 A wonderful scientist, mentor, teacher, and leader @maitreya.bsky.social

Sharing this with our graduate student community 👇 The Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants are a great way to support your research journey. We encourage you to apply!

🐟How does the Amazon molly defy all evolutionary odds and overcome the detrimental costs of asexual reproduction?🧬 😊Glad that @rdacemel.bsky.social and I could contribute to this fascinating study, brilliantly led by Ed Ricemeyer @nature.com 👏Congrats to all authors! @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social

📢 Reminder: #Yeast26 extended abstract submission deadline is tomorrow (Thursday) at 8PM PT! Submit your research and join us at #Asilomar this summer. Whether your work is fully fermented or still just budding, the #YeastGenetics community wants to hear from you! 🧬 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social #GSA

In a new study, Sarah Marion &co use genetic mapping and whole genome sequencing in wild #Drosophila to reveal the genetic basis of naturally occurring lethal mutations and introduce a new model that could explain their frequencies in natural populations. 🧪 #genetics

🍻 Great news!🥂 Abstract deadline for #Yeast26 extended to Thursday, March 12 @ 8:00 PM EST. Perfect opportunity to present your research, get feedback, and form new collaborations at #Asilomar this summer. Your work doesn't need to be presentation-ready - submit now! 🧬 #YeastGenetics #YGM2026 🧪

📣 Calling all yeast scientists! Dive into #Yeast26 and hear from our organizers on what makes this conference so special. 📅 June 13-17, 2026 📍 Pacific Grove, CA 👉 Read the blog: buff.ly/6SBTbaY PS. Abstracts due in 4 days on March 5! @caitismuheil.bsky.social @schacherer.bsky.social

Researchers in the US might be having feelings about writing grants atm-I know I am! We still need to write them. In this Evolution Exchange, I again chat with Sam Scheiner, who summarizes how to write a competitive proposal. His advice is gold, and helpful regardless of funder. Pls RT!

I'm very excited to be involved in organizing this year's Yeast meeting. See you there? #Yeast26

#Genomics methodologies can often introduce bias, resulting in inaccurate predictions. In #GENETICS, Michael Overton and @skryazhi.bsky.social present an improved genotyping pipeline for analyzing mutation accumulation in #yeast with a more reliable statistical estimations. buff.ly/1rcGasy

Our paper is now out in Nature: “Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres” www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short thread on how retrotransposons helped give rise to yeast point centromeres. 1/14

With the @rokaslab.bsky.social, three novel whole genome duplication (WGD) events were discovered in the Saccharomycotina yeast species in the Dipodascales clade. Before now, only four WGD events were known in fungi. This work suggests WGD may be underreported. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Founded in 1950, NSF's mission is "To promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, & welfare; & to secure the national defense; and for other purposes." NSF discoveries underpin most modern technology from the US. That scientific progress is ending. Tell your reps!

New research in #GENETICS identifies chromosome number and mean chromosome size as practical proxies for genome-wide recombination rate by analyzing genetic map data from 73 insect species and 157 monocentric flowering plants. buff.ly/L4O68V5

🥁 NEW Our study on infant gut microbiome and #straintransmission is now published in @nature.com: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 1/10

Pregnancy loss is common in humans, and chromosomal abnormalities are the leading cause. Using genetic data from ~140,000 IVF embryos, we show that maternal variation in meiosis genes influences recombination and aneuploidy risk. First authors: @saracarioscia.bsky.social & @aabiddanda.github.io

The Abreu lab at NYU is hiring another postdoc! We study microbial ecology and evolution, using yeast/bacteria microcosms, DNA barcoding for evolutionary lineage tracking, and simple mathematical modeling. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/179949

Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers. I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.

Final version of paper with @smishra677.bsky.social now published in a wonderful issue of GENETICS! academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

New in #G3journal: Andrew Morgan shows that #crossover interference is stronger in male than in female meiosis in house #mice (Mus musculus), providing the first estimate of the proportion of non-interfering crossovers in female mice. buff.ly/zCPIbrV

Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...

The 2025 Agar Art Contest winners have been selected! This year’s theme, “Microbes Make the World Go Round,” inspired 557 global entries—from food fermentation to antibiotic production. See the masterpieces and finalists! asm.org/press-releas... #agarart